- bellicose
- adj1. aggressive, antagonistic, combative, belligerent, pugnacious; hostile, unfriendly, inimical; contentious, quarrelsome, dissentious, wrangling, litigious, disputatious, argumentative; opposed, faultfinding, captious; contrary, perverse, stubborn.2. militant, martial, warring, warlike, warmongering, jingoistic, Inf. on the warpath, unpeaceful; factious, chauvinistic, patriotic; contending, wrestling, battling, grappling, fighting; gladiatorial, pugilistic.3. irritable, cantankerous, cross, surly, snappish, petulant, peevish; testy, fractious, Sl. uptight, choleric, touchy, huffy, peppery; splenetic, spleenful, bilious, cranky, ill-tempered, Australian. crook, bad-tempered; irascible, quick-tempered, short-tempered, Inf. short-fused.4. violent, unrestrained, uncontrollable; volatile, volcanic, explosive, hot-tempered, hot-headed, fiery, inflammable; enraged, raging, fuming, irate, ireful, wrathful, wroth, angry; furious, livid, Inf. mad as a hornet, Inf. mad as a wet hen.5. ranting, raving, storming, foaming at the mouth, rabid, fanatical, frenzied; frantic, crazed, Pathol. delirious, mad, Inf. wild, out of one's mind, beside oneself, Sl. freaked out.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.